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Description: | Part of a Roman copper alloy bracelet with a zoomorphic terminal. The bracelet is an incomplete circular hoop, plano-convex in section, becoming flatter and narrower towards the terminal. This is in the form of an animal's head with a long snout, upturned with a circular knob at its end. The head is moulded between two grooves, with incised oval eyes. The decoration on the remainder of exterior of the bracelet consists of repeating groups of five grooves with plain sections between containing a dot and circle motif. It is likely that the knob at the end of the animal head formed a hook for a 'hook and eye' type of bracelet fastening. The missing terminal is likely to have had a loop. This type of bracelet with repeated decoration was found in late Roman burial contexts at Poundbury and Lankhills and continues to be found in early Anglo-Saxon contexts. A direct parallel for this type of hooked zoomorphic terminal was not found.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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